Information Morning host Terry Seguin and guests Philip Lee and Dan Leger claimed that Miles is a "blogger" and questioned his credentials as a journalist. At one point Leger even calls Miles a "hot-headed fanatic." We deplore the use of this kind of language towards any journalist, let alone one with the tenacity and work ethic of Miles Howe.

 

On multiple occasions the host and guests claimed that Howe is an unpaid blogger for the Halifax Media Co-op, and questioned whether he or our organization adheres to journalistic standards, fact checking or accuracy in our work. The irony that the host and guests were not meeting their own standards seemed lost on them: a single phone call would have revealed that Howe has been a paid staff editor and journalist with the Media Co-op's national editorial collective for two years now, contributing both to our local website, the Halifax Media Co-op, and our national magazine, The Dominion (which, for the record, does have a fact checking process).

 

As a staff writer, Miles can publish directly to our website, where there are sections for blogging and sections for reporting. We do our best to hold our journalists to the same degree of accuracy as other outlets, and invite Lee, Leger and Seguin to point out any factual errors they have found in Miles' work. We welcome fact-based criticism of our work, and should a mistake be found, we will happily issue a correction. It appears that Seguin, Lee and Leger didn't do their research before jumping to conclusions about Miles Howe and the Media Co-op.